Autocad CADWorker license

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February 12, 2020
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We are setting up an Autocad CADWorker for the first time and trying to figure out the license strategy. It seems Autodesk wants a named-user for the Autocad license. I am wondering what other businesses are doing to address this?

Licensing

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TomU

23-Emerald IV

Windchill requires a named user license for the Workgroup Manager. AutoCAD itself can be purchased with a floating license if bundled in a collection. For example: https://www.autodesk.com/collections/product-design-manufacturing/overview

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JoshuaHouser

Author

16-Pearl

@TomU, thank you for the very quick response! Your response highlighted my error! I actually mean the CADWorker for publishing in Windchill. We are loading an Autocad client on a server and configuring it as a CADWorker for Windchill 11 M030.

This makes the named-user painful, as the goal is to not have a user tied to the server. Apparently Autodesk doesn't play nice with "Service" accounts either.